Parts
Know what is on the shelf, and what it cost
On-hand and average cost are worked out from every part that has moved, not from a number somebody typed.
The catalog
- Parts with real specs
- A crankshaft is a stroke and two journal diameters. Search on the numbers and find the one you already have.
- Five price levels
- Retail, trade, and whatever you call the racer who is in every week.
- Bins and margins
- Where it is, what it cost, what it sells for, and the margin — while you are quoting.
- Kits and templates
- A gasket set or a standard teardown, added in one go.
- Customer property
- The crank on your rack that belongs to somebody else is tracked as theirs.
Keeping it straight
- Every movement leaves a line
- What came in, what went out, onto which ticket, and who did it. The shelf and the screen cannot drift apart quietly.
- Minimums and reorder points
- Set them once and the shortage list keeps itself, counting what is already on order.
- Counts that hold still
- Start a count and the expected numbers freeze, so a sale mid-count does not make it look wrong.
- Bring in what you have
- Import customers, parts and rates from a spreadsheet, with a dry run first.